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July 2018

July 19, 2018
Today is my final post on Biblical Words and World. I hope we’ve all had...
July 15, 2018
“I hear words I never heard in the Bible,” sang Simon and Garfunkel in “Keep...
July 11, 2018
Musonius Rufus was a first century AD pagan Stoic philosopher whose views were much like...
July 09, 2018
Polls are a lousy source of truth. Consider the inscription I saw on a bathroom...
July 05, 2018
Jeremiah 29:7 gives the exiles from Judah a message from God: “Seek the welfare of...
July 02, 2018
America has gone back to the days when the Roman Republic first went out the...

June 2018

June 28, 2018
A few years ago, I discovered the website of a large Midwestern church. I was...
June 25, 2018
How much could we know about the life and teachings of Jesus if all we...
June 21, 2018
Second Peter is the best example of an accused fraud, more than any other book...
June 18, 2018
How much of the Bible is timeless, and how much is time-bound? Why is a...
June 14, 2018
“Be perfect, even as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:48) Perfect? What does Jesus...
June 11, 2018
The Bible never classifies gambling as a sin, and has virtually nothing to say about...
June 07, 2018
Ezekiel was literally an R-rated prophet. St. Jerome writes that Jews in 400 AD would...
June 04, 2018
One of the key tests of a false prophet is false prophecy, predictions that do...

May 2018

May 31, 2018
Both literalism and inerrancy need to be carefully defined. Strictly defined, nobody believes in literalism....
May 28, 2018
History, or hogwash? Does it matter whether anything in the Bible really and truly happened?...
May 24, 2018
Today’s church is re-living the world of heresy of the second and third centuries AD....
May 21, 2018
Today’s church is now re-living the second century AD, a period when the church was...
May 17, 2018
Pentecost is the perfect time to explore the use of the word spirit in the...
May 14, 2018
Soul, or life? Such is the choice we must make in translating the New Testament...
May 09, 2018
The Iron Age Super Mom of Proverbs 31:10 is called a woman of "valor," a...
May 07, 2018
Jesus’ ascension into heaven is a bizarre way to say goodbye: to rise straight up...
May 03, 2018
How many times have we heard that claim that “Jesus never spoke one word on...

April 2018

April 28, 2018
Polls cannot measure truth. In Matthew 16:13-20, Jesus takes a sample poll to see what...
April 26, 2018
As we saw in our last post, Mark gives us Jesus’ most remarkable case as...
April 23, 2018
Jesus shows himself to be the world’s all-time champion exorcist in the world’s worst recorded...
April 19, 2018
One of the most bizarre groups from the first century AD was the Cynics,a group...
April 16, 2018
The Stoic philosopher Seneca was about as Christian as a pagan Stoic could get. Seneca...
April 12, 2018
The Epicureans were a school of thinkers in New Testament times who were just as...
April 07, 2018
Paul’s famous words on the Greek word agapē in 1 Corinthians 13 become the most...
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